Saturday, December 25, 2010

Christmas Eve and Morning

Merry Christmas, Everyone!  We had a great Christmas this year.  Watching the girls' excitement was so much fun for Bryan and I.  Christmas truly is magical when you have two 2 year olds to celebrate with.

Emma and Ella got to open one present on Christmas Eve.

New Princess Jammies!  I was amazed at how much better they were at unwrapping the presents compared to their birthday, just 6 months ago.  They had no trouble with the wrapping paper at all.
Emma
Ella cracked us up by saying,
 "Oh My Goodness!"  after seeing what
several of her presents were.  


Emma showing off her new jammies.

Ella in her new jammies.

After getting changed we read The Night Before Christmas.

 And set out the cookies and milk for Santa.

It took Ella and Emma a very long time to go to sleep.  They were just so excited about the idea of Santa bringing them new toys.  We kept catching them peeking around the corner and giggling.  It was so sweet.  But they finally did give up.
"The children were nestled, all snug in their beds."
And Santa was finally able to come by for a visit.



Christmas morning was so much fun!!!  The girls were so excited about the presents under the tree, it took them some time to notice the large kitchen play-set beside the tree.  I set up the video camera for the opening of those presents and didn't take very many pictures, but I did get pictures of opening stockings.


Ella

Emma
 Then, after eating some sugar plums for breakfast, we opened the presents Aunt Clora Ann sent.


Ella and Emma had a great time playing with all their new toys.

It wasn't until later that we realized: only 1 of the presents Santa brought came in one piece.  Every other present had many, many pieces.

We had a very Merry Christmas and hope you did too!

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